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socialist_economy_21st_century.pdf
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A bit US-centric but still quite useful
"Old-fashioned socialism, it turns out, is the “good old thing” best suited for combating the “bad new things” of modern capitalism. Corbyn and Sanders upended their respective parties precisely by holding on to socialism even when it was desperately unfashionable to do so. They were able to do so because they understood, as the Italian novelist Giuseppe Lampedusa put it, “Because things are the way they are, they cannot stay the way they are.”"

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/third-way-democratic-socialism-tony-blair-bill-clinton-uk/
"Franklin already knew he was being monitored; he had been followed by unmarked cars for years, and he often confronted police and livestreamed the exchanges with his phone when he saw them watching him. But the extent of the surveillance revealed in the documents surprised even him: Some memos listed people’s height and weight, Social Security numbers, and in one case details of an individual’s mental health history. And Franklin realized when he learned of the joint intelligence briefs that a new neighbor who had told him that he looked familiar had been receiving the memos police had written on him and distributed widely."

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/20/political-surveillance-police-activists-tennessee/
#podcast

I decided to compile a list (that will also be published on the list of Pantopia Daily's musts) of some podcasts you might enjoy:

ChapoTrapHouse
David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan

On the topic of Queer, 2 short ones (they're 6 episodes each. They're kind of OT but I can't recommend them enough):
- Moonface, in which a young gay man wants to come out to his mom but can't because they don't speak the same language
- Gay Future, a satirical narrative sci-fi comedy series in which a totalitarian government rules over what’s left of North America to spread its insidious gay agenda

I might update the list in the future, so if you have something to suggest please use @pantopiafeedbackbot
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Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩 pinned «Hey guys! We've done this once before, and it seemed to have helped out, but this time around a friend of the network, and a hardworking syndicalist, ran into a bit of trouble. Dude needs help. Let's show him what some good old fashioned direct action and…»
Over time I've sent a series of articles, essays and videos on leftist theory and matters that might be of interest for leftists. I fear that new "entries" might skip on these invaluable sources, so I decided to compile what is hopefully a concise list, so as to be always easily accessible. Enjoy!

https://telegra.ph/Musts-from-Pantopia-Daily-01-24

p.s: the list itself is a work in progress, it will be expanded over time
p.p.s: I updated the list with some other stuff at the end, for 'beginners'